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Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

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373 points ibobev | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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umvi ◴[29 Aug 25 16:16 UTC] No.45066011[source]▶
Note this is "coding" as in "encoding" and "decoding" (i.e. information theory) and not as in "programming"
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madcaptenor ◴[29 Aug 25 16:56 UTC] No.45066539[source]▶
Also not as in "cryptography".
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1. nullc ◴[29 Aug 25 22:51 UTC] No.45070294[source]▶
you can pretty much directly use error correcting codes to perform cryptography, however. :P

A little trickier to use them to program.